HMS Nimble

Several vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nimble.

  • HMS Nimble (1778) was a 12-gun cutter that was wrecked in 1781 with the loss of 28 men.[1]
  • HMS Nimble (1781) was a purchased 12-gun cutter that ran aground in 1808 in Stangate Creek in the Medway and was then sold.[2]
  • HMS Nimble (1811) was a Nimble-class 10-gun cutter commissioned under Lieutenant John Reynolds in 1812 that was wrecked on a sunken rock a half-dozen miles from the Sälö Beacon, Sweden, during a violent storm in the Kattegat on 6 October 1812. Apparently, insufficient allowance had been made for the strong currents.[3][4]
  • HMS Nimble (1813) was a purchased 12-gun cutter that was sold in 1816.
  • HMS Nimble whose crew dislodged the Logan Rock whilst stationed off Land's End in April 1824.
  • HMS Nimble (1826) was a 5-gun schooner employed off Cuba in the suppression of the slave trade until she was wrecked on 4 November 1834.[5]
  • HMS Nimble (1860) was a gunvessel of 5 guns that had a relatively uneventful career before she became a drill ship for the Royal Naval Reserve in 1890 and was disposed of in 1906.
  • HMS Nimble (W 123) was a rescue tug launched in 1942 and sold in 1968.[6]

There was a revenue cutter Nimble, of Deal, that the French captured and that became the French privateer Dunqerquois. The hired armed cutter Princess Augusta destroyed her on 5 March 1808.

Citations
  1. Hepper (1794), p. 61.
  2. Gossett (1986), p. 69.
  3. Gossett (1986), p. 85.
  4. Hepper (1994), p. 142.
  5. Gossett (1986), p. 105.
  6. Uboat.net

References
  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
  • Gossett, William Patrick (1986). The lost ships of the Royal Navy, 1793–1900. Mansell. ISBN 0-7201-1816-6.
  • Hepper, David J. (1994) British Warship Losses in the Age of Sail, 1650–1859. (Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot). ISBN 0-948864-30-3
  • Winfield, Rif (2008). British Warships in the Age of Sail 1793–1817: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth. ISBN 1-86176-246-1.
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